Cities of Mesopatamia

This is a map of major cities founded throughout history along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. This region has gone by many names over the centuries-Sumer, Mesopotamia, the Fertile Crescent, etc. Today, it is the sovereign state of Iraq.

 

I find it fascinating that so much history has occurred in this area. While the political, economic, and social pinnacle of each individual place might be separated by hundreds, maybe thousands of years, they aren't that far away. So much history here overlaps in a long epic of human activity.

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Religious and Political History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Bosnia and Herzegovina (or ‘Bosnia’) is a country in Europe with a long and bloody history of religious conflict. A former Jugoslav republic, it often served as a borderland between different cultures. In ancient times, it was home to the Illyrians, a people we do not know too much about. Illyrian was, as far as we know, an Indo-European language.[1] Just as with the religious traditions of the Hellenic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Italic, and Vedic peoples, early Illyrian religious beliefs could probably be traced back to the Eurasian Steppes, featuring a ‘sky-father’ as a major member of the Illyrian pantheon, perhaps reflecting a patriarchal society.

Domestication of Flora and Fauna

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